Archive for the ‘Stagnancy’ Category

Saturday, December 22nd, 2007

The person who takes the banal and ordinary and illuminates it in a new way can terrify. We do not want our ideas changed. We feel threatened by such demands. “I already know the important things!” we say. Then Changer comes and throws our old ideas away.

- The Zensufi Master

Thursday, July 19th, 2007

Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague rituals.

- Words of Muad’dib by Princess Irulan